LL-L "Afrikaans" 2004.04.15 (03) [A/E]

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From: Liza du Plooy <lizaduplooy at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Afrikaans" 2004.04.15 (01) [E]


Hallo Laaglanders

Aangaande Afrikaans: Ek was hartseer gewees om te sien dat mense my taal as
"die taal van apartheid" beskou. Dit maak seker sin as ek daaroor dink, maar
dit is nie iets waaraan jy dink as jy 'n skooldogtertjie in Afrikaanse klas
is nie! Die ding is, nie almal wat Afrikaans praat het met apartheid
saamgestem nie!
Toe ek laas in Suid-Afrika was, in 2002, was ek geskok gewees om te sien dat
daar nou Engelse subtitles vir Afrikaans op tv is! Dit was 'n reeks wat 'n
groot verskiedenheid van tale in dit gehad het, en net die Afrikaans het
byskrifte gehad. (Ek reken dit is onregverdig!) Dit gaan veroorsaak die
mense wat Engels as 'n eerste taal praat nie meer gaan probeer om Afrikaans
te leer nie.

Oor die statistieke, is dit vir Afrikaans huis-taal sprekers? Ek het nog nie
een swart Suid-Afrikaaner ontmoet wat nie ten minste 'n bietjie Afrikaans
kon praat nie. Ek het erens gelees dat 60% van die wit bevolking en 90% van
die kleurling bevolking Afrikaans by die huis praat. Ek glo dat daar
defnitief meer kleurliinge en swartmense as witmense is wat Afrikaans praat,
net omdat daar minder witmense is om mee te begin!

Hello Lowlanders

Concerning Afrikaans: I was saddened to see that some people view my
language as "the language of apartheid". I guess it does make sense if you
think about it, but it is not something that ever occurs to you when you are
a schoolkid in Afrikaans class! The thing is that not everybody who speaks
Afrikaans agreed with apartheid.
In 2002, when I was last in South-Africa, I was shocked to see that there is
now English subtitles for Afrikaans on tv. It was a series with a wide
variety of languages in it, but only Afrikaans had subtitles. ( I think it's
unfair!) It will result in English first-language speaker to stop bothering
about learning Afrikaans.

About the statistics, is that for people who speak Afrikaans as their home
language? I have never met a black South-African who could not speak at
least a little bit of Afrikaans. I've read somewhere than Afrikaans is the
home-language of 60% of the white population, and 90% of the coloured
population. I believe that there are definitely more coloureds and blacks
who speak Afrikaans than there are whites, simply because there are less
whites to begin with!

Liza du Plooy

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